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  • Inclusive Futures: Reimagining Disability joins the World Health Organisation Disability Health Equity Network

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    Flyer advertising the livestreamed opening ceremony of the inaugural meeting of the WHO Disability Health Equity Network on 12 November 2025, 9:00-10:30am CET.

    We’re proud to announce that Inclusive Futures: Reimagining Disability, Griffith University, led by Professor Elizabeth Kendall OAM GAICD (Director) has officially become a member of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Disability Health Equity Network — a landmark global initiative driving action to achieve health equity for the 1.3 billion people worldwide with disability.

    Representing Inclusive Futures at the Network’s Inauguration this week (12–13 November) at WHO Headquarters, Geneva, are Dr Kelsey Chapman (Research Fellow, The Dignity Project) and Dr Kelly Clanchy (Program Director, Bachelor of Clinical Exercise Physiology).

    This global collaboration recognises that people with disability continue to face significant and avoidable health inequities—including shorter life expectancy and higher risk of disease—due to systemic barriers in and beyond health systems.

    Investing in disability-inclusive health is not only a human rights obligation—it’s smart policy, with research showing a tenfold return on investment in inclusive health care.

    We’re honoured to contribute to this international movement working to ensure Health for All truly means all.


    Dr Kelly Clanchy (brunette) and Dr Kelsey Chapman (blonde) wearing business pants suits and attending the WHO Conference in Geneva, Switzerland.Dr Kelly Clanchy together with Dr Kelsey Chapman at the WHO Conference in Geneva.

    Dr Kelsey Chapman a young white woman with long blonde hair and wearing a navy pinstripe pants suit and lanyard stands in front of the WHO photowall at the conference.Dr Kelsey Chapman